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the Quality Register and Health & Safety

the Quality Register has been in existence now for over ten years.

Many of the people listed and registered with us who are adept in Quality Assurance, are also skilled, experienced and qualified in health & safety.

We are anxious to develop the listing and selection of engagements in Health & Safety in its own right as well as in conjunction with Quality Assurance.

Currently, amongst our listed quality assurance specialists (now approaching 2000 in number) we have almost 600 who are also skilled in health & safety matters often also holding this responsibility as a part of their employment.

We are therefore aiming to expand our service to people whose first skill is in Health & Safety.

You can then enter your details through our 'Jobseeker' facility or just email us direct.

Health & Safety first came to prominence in the UK in the 1970's culminating in the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 which re-codified previous legislation into a single Act. This platform has been built on significantly since with a welter of supporting and explanatory legislation AGPO's and the like. Some of these include:

The need to ensure that organisations had a management system with functioning Health & Safety procedures brought about the need for a certification protocol. OHSAS 18001 resulted from the combination of ten largely national occupational health and safely management certification systems. At the same time it was developed to be compatible with the ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) management systems standards, in order to facilitate the integration of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems by organizations, should they wish to do so.

The OHSAS specification gives requirements for an occupational health and safety management system, to enable an organisation to control its OH&S risks and improve its performance. It does not state specific OH&S performance criteria, nor does it give detailed specifications for the design of a management system.

The OHSAS specification is applicable to any organisation that wishes to:

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